I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.
My career isn't gonna screetch to a halt because some guy in Westbury filmed ten minutes of the show. "Well, we were gonna give you the sitcom but saw that bit you did about the Mormons in Westbury, so get outta here. "
Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is. . . Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
A sitcom. I hate that word.
People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.
When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.
The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.
There's this cornucopia of potential, and it can't be realized until someone works their ass off for it. Even on a Nickelodeon sitcom.
I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.
I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.
I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.
My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.
The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it.
